It's really odd, and don't add up :I have a CF/512MB and a CF-HDD/8GB and a PentiumIII motherboard (they tend to use around 17 watts, that's why I took a P3 600MHz).
* If using the CF/512MB in an IDE/CF converter, I can install pfSense - but this would destroy my CF in matter of time (I don't want to use the embedded version), and pfSense just starts up without a problem. * If using the CF-HDD/8GB in an IDE/CF converter, I can't install pfSense - the installer doesn't find the drive (BIOS is ok, it just finds it, and I can install Linux or WindowsXP). * If using the CF-HDD/8GB in an SATA/CF converter, plugging in a PCI/SATA controller, I can install pfSense on ad4, but the BIOS of the PentiumIII won't boot from the SATA controller (this has nothing to do with pfSense).
I find it weird that the drive can be found using a SATA/CF converter, and not in the IDE/CF convertor... and when installing a 512MB flash card in the IDE/CF converter everything works fine... I am not thinking if it would be possible to boot off the CF/512MB in read mode, and use the CF-HDD/8GB for read/write operations... I then would plug the flashdrive into PATA 1, and the harddrive into PATA 2
Or does someone have an alternative into emulating the SATA drive into BIOS (by booting of the CF/512MB in PATA2)... maybe I can try some other bootmanager installed on the CF512 ?
Any idea is welcome :) kind regards, Michel
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